Byron Spice Director of Media Relations School of Computer Science

Mark Power Director, Marketing & Communications School of Computer Science

The School of Computer Science is the point of contact for questions regarding computer science and related disciplines including robotics, machine learning, language technologies, human-computer interaction, software research and computational biology.

Carnegie Mellon University includes computer-related resources beyond the School of Computer Science. Some of the major organizations and their contacts include:

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

The ECE Department is part of the College of Engineering and includes the headquarters for CyLab, a campus-wide computer security research center. http://www.ece.cmu.edu

Software Engineering Institute

A federally funded research and development center operated by Carnegie Mellon University, the SEI includes the CERT Program, which identifies Internet security vulnerabilities and works to improve the security of networked systems. http://www.sei.cmu.edu

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

The PSC provides researchers nationwide with access to several high-performance computing systems and is a joint effort of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, together with Westinghouse Electric Company. http://www.psc.edu

Enrollment (2015-16): 1,980

Undergraduate: 600 Masters: 901 Doctoral: 7479

Degrees Conferred (2014-15): 738

Bachelor's: 197Masters: 470Doctoral: 71

Faculty & Research:

Faculty (full- and part-time): 284 Four current and emeritus faculty members are recipients of the A.M. Turing Award, the most prestigious technical award for computing. Sponsored research: $124 million

Leadership:

Major Buildings

The Gates and Hillman centers, opened in 2009, include 217,000 square feet of classroom, office and laboratory space. Designed by Mack Scoggin Merrill Elam Architects of Atlanta, Ga., the buildings are LEED Gold certified as a green building in 2011 and won the American Institute of Architects Honor Award for Architecture in 2012. The buildings are home to the School of Computer Science offices, Computer Science Department, Computational Biology Department, Machine Learning Department, and the Languages Technologies Institute.

The world premiere of "La Mare dels Peixos"(Mother Fish), a one-act opera co-written by Roger Dannenberg, professor of computer science, and Jorge Sastre, professor at the Polytechnic University of Valencia and former visiting researcher at CMU, will be held Friday, Dec. 16, in Valencia, Spain. The opera, based on an old Valencian folktale about how a magical fish changes a family's fortunes, includes computer and electronic elements. Dannenberg, whose research focuses on computer music, hopes to arrange a... MORE »

12.06.16 --

Howie Choset, professor of robotics, and Manuela Veloso, head of the Machine Learning Department, are two of eight founding editorial board members of Science Robotics, the latest member of the Science family of journals. The journal's inaugural issue, published Dec. 6, included a review article on bio-inspired robots written by Matt Travers, systems scientist in the Robotics Institute, and Choset. Science Robotics will promote the... MORE »

11.15.16 --

The Verge technology and culture site is celebrating its fifth anniversary in November by looking at what's in store for the next five years, based on interviews with opinion leaders, such as Manuela Veloso, head of SCS's Machine Learning Department. Read Veloso's "The Verge 2021" interview and watch the accompanying video to get her insights on why humanity and artificial intelligence will be inseparable.